{"product_id":"bewildered-stories","title":"Bewildered","description":"This is a world of secret-sharers, a noisy world full of unimaginable silence,” claims one of the characters in this compelling debut collection. The ten stories in \u003cem\u003eBewildered\u003c\/em\u003e examine small world disruptions - mistimed infatuations, devastating diagnoses, the realizations inherent in loss. Characters look up from what they assumed were ordinary lives amazed to discover where they find themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFamiliar landscapes - city streets, coastal towns emptied of tourists, suburban neighborhoods—are backdrops for unfulfilled dreams: the luckiest man alive arouses the suspicions of those he most wants to befriend, a grieving lover invites herself into another’s life, a young girl discovers her tea leaves reveal nothing as life-altering as those of her friend, the straying husband pays a debt for his and his son’s obsessions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe stories ask: Can you live any way forever? What links them is what links all of us: the desire to belong, the need to heal, the fear of what happens next.","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32068819910739,"sku":"","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781625341334.jpg?v=1777207557","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/bewildered-stories","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}